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Global tax issues are a top priority for the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI), which focuses its work on investigating taxpayers who willfully engage in tax evasion. Significant efforts are also being made to identify...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) provides the most comprehensive tax reform in more than three decades. Small and medium business owners will find that the Act reduces their total taxes both on an entity and an individual level, while...

A High Court in England and Wales recently confirmed the Court’s ability to order a worldwide freezing order (WFO) to aid enforcement of an arbitral award as a judgment of the Court. In the recent decision of Great Station Properties v UMS Holding...

Defense counsel are generally trained to remove cases to federal court, and to then seek dismissal of those cases, wherever possible. But those strategies can conflict where a defendant’s motion to dismiss argues that plaintiff lacks injury because...

After Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida, a nursing home in South Florida lost power, and several residents of that nursing home died allegedly as the result of increased temperatures caused by the loss of air conditioning....

Credit fund managers face unique conflicts issues under ERISA that require specific policies and procedures designed to identify, avoid and mitigate the risks these conflicts pose. This podcast serves as an introduction to how credit fund managers...

A just-released report by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of Inspector General (OIG) points to the importance of the regional airline industry in safely transporting passengers, economic changes buffeting the industry, and...

On December 14, 2017, in The Boeing Company, 365 NLRB 154 (2017), the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) established a new standard for reviewing employee handbook provisions that allegedly restrict an employee’s rights under Section 7 of the...

1. Redistricting. Abbott v. Perez, Nos. 17-586 & 17-626. Do Texas’s Congressional districts treat racial minorities unconstitutionally? When the district court ordered the parties to appear at a hearing to redraw the districts unless the Governor...

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